Its was a spring day with a flurry of birds that were passing through.
Plenty Whimbrels coming up the Clahane coast followed by White Wagtail, a few extra Rock Pipits, Wheatear, a couple of Common Sandpipers, they all seemed to arrive and leave together.
This stand out Greenland type Wheatear has been hanging around the river entry area at corner in Clahane for about a week, and will probably push through with west coast with the last of the |Waders such as Whimbrel , Dunlin and Purple Sandpipers
Two Whimbrel were attracted to the seaweed that was along the high tide mark along Clahane shoreline.
Other birds such as Gulls, Redshank, Turnstone and Hooded Crows also were crwling through the seaweed wash up
Kilmacreedy is the northside of Lahinch bay approaching Liscannor.
A small low pressure was close to the coast producing a one day swell of waves and wind from the southwest and it brought a lot of Gulls to within Lahinch bay.
I sat up on the rocks near the graveyard and just let the birds pass me as they come across the bay.
Many Herring Gulls , Great Black backed Gulls, Kittiwake and Whimbrel were the commonest but a few Dunlin and a Bar tailed Godwit were travelling with the Whimbrel
The Barnacle Goose which I found the previous day flew in and landed in the field behind me.
It must be May, Whimbrel are all over the coast by the 1000s , picking in the seaweed and fields close to the shore, most reefs points and offshore islands will hold numbers of roosting birds as they gather ready to cross there final path across the Ocean to Iceland and beyond.
